From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#49316: Add apply-partially's right version Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 07:10:36 -0700 Message-ID: References: <2315db79-00cf-b2f0-b5df-93cd53392292@gmail.com> <87czs2faas.fsf@tcd.ie> <834kddlvpg.fsf@gnu.org> <27c5c6c9-32d7-0b9a-b883-4f28167ec25c@gmail.com> <83lf6nj2u9.fsf@gnu.org> <835ytm4o3r.fsf@gnu.org> <87fssq8rhn.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36772"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, daanturo@gmail.com, 49316@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Lars Ingebrigtsen , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 16:11:27 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1meeDe-0009M2-Ee for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 16:11:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53388 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1meeDd-0004uF-As for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 10:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1meeDG-0004tv-CI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 10:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1meeDG-0004RA-3V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 10:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1meeDF-0008SN-Tf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 10:11:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 14:11:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 49316 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 49316-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B49316.163508464432483 (code B ref 49316); Sun, 24 Oct 2021 14:11:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 49316) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Oct 2021 14:10:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40458 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1meeCy-0008Rr-5T for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 10:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pg1-f170.google.com ([209.85.215.170]:41665) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1meeCw-0008Rf-SY for 49316@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 10:10:43 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pg1-f170.google.com with SMTP id 83so2051511pgc.8 for <49316@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 07:10:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=DJ0xiu7C9UHIJDqh49jf2UXFQxVtrL/J9t2M59RdqRU=; b=iwsLXco7IlnGSdW64DjvYE4etg+DTYmE1S2JfRJdCk7B0n6iKIC2WwWM1a0qRX8p9U I5znNTrxY1Adk6mNbHyiXgwXtjFEnQ25Mjc1IbLV7/4wRW/6RP6m2gJcbco3etRK9WU/ 5ayn42+HGrvyq8cJjoFiDTUCGxbZAd/u4YvoiC7s+AAwuowNILSBiZjXUH3ofK6/7yIL /nm0DWXz9B2Ja+AOezV/MVm0naiqc3vh1uPTpZmJdKF+SyDkLkr4qoGJ5WYvpZwwMLXu 84aQTRE8lRivCNMezYPflqoxjB+5xWYpUzJlMWH41be4Xhj5rNEdJzTwXnOZ/um/7pBo /GMQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5336MjZ+OZ2mBoVGjPgKs4mt1OL5JDY0z5jnlV/8Dw4s2aGbPWAB ShRt9YEIP7e8VdqYqRAggY8ZlTUxMhbbB3AWMk72fpY0qZI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzZ2lVGG/H5fxaYM9/O2N9D75UMhdgti4WGY7KbCKAx8N1C9EFtNDol1CBuIVtgBrOWoBMjbxRgKkG4LyI5eOc= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6a00:244d:b0:44d:c279:5155 with SMTP id d13-20020a056a00244d00b0044dc2795155mr12483131pfj.0.1635084637157; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 07:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 07:10:36 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87fssq8rhn.fsf@gnus.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:218126 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > I'm not very enthusiastic -- is partial application used a lot now that > we've got lexical binding? Partial application has always seemed like > One Weird Trick to me. > > On the other hand -- some people are used to programming using these > idioms, so perhaps it makes sense to add a right version as well? I don't think function currying (a.k.a. partial application) is a weird trick, but I'm also not sure how important it is in Emacs Lisp given that we prefer writing code in an imperative style. And we can just create a lambda instead; it is slightly more verbose but also slightly more familiar. I've personally missed this a couple of times though, so I definitely wouldn't mind if it was added.